Musical wind instrument.



L. P. KLOBPFEL.

MUSICAL WIND INSTRUMENT.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 19, 1913.

1, 1 22,207, Patented Dec. 22, 1914.

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APPLICATION FILED JUNE 19, 1913.

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MUSICAL VIINID INSTRUMENT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 22, 1914.

Application filed June 19, 1913. Serial No. 774,544.

To aZZ 01:71am it may concern Be it known that 1, Louis F. KLoErrnL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvements in Musical Wind Instruments, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in musical wind instruments, the object of the invention being to produce a wind instrument for use in small orchestras or hands where one musician is obliged to play two or more instruments, so that one musician may play the cue notes in arrangements of music for small orchestras. F or instance a musician may play with my improved instrument the parts arranged for a cornet and for the French horn and by the use of dif fercnt mouth-pieces he mav play the cue notes for the bassoon, trombone and French horn. To accomplish these ends I combine two wind instruments of diiierent styles or character, each of said instruments having a mouth piece, the mouth pieces, however, varying in the formation of their interior bores, but the rims of both mouth pieces being substantially duplicates one of the other and located adjacent to each other. so that as the occasion requires the musician may first play on one instrument and then on the other by changing from one mouth piece to the other, and to obtain a still greater variety the musician may change one of the mouth pieces as may be required.

In the instrument as illustrated and described in the following specification one of the wind instruments is constructed after the usual style of the cornet or trumpet while the other instrument has a specially constructed tube leading from the mouth piece to the third valve and a specially constructed and arranged bell, whereby the sounds are directed outwardlv from said bell at a diiierent an le from that in which the sounds are directed from the bell of the comet or trumpet. The tone produced by the particular construction of the tube leading from the mouth piece to the third valve of my specially constructed wind instrument and the downwardly extending bell is a close resemblance to the tone of a French horn, and the mouth piece is also constructed to aid in this production of tone, but the rim of the mouth piece and the rim of the cornet mouth piece are substantially duplicates.

Another object of the invention is to so construct the instrument that the two independent wind instruments mav be readily disconnected from each other and used as separate instruments if so desired.

The invention consists in the combination and arrangement of parts set forth in the following specification and particularly po nted out in the claims thereof.

Referring to the drawings: Figure 1 is a side elevation of a wind instrument constructed in accordance with my invention, one of the mo th pieces being broken awav to illustrate the construction thereof, and shown in section. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same, the other mouth piece being shown in section. Fig. 3 is a sectional elevation taken on line 33 of Fig. 2. Fig. 4- is a detail sectional plan of the bracket and levers whereby the two wind instruments are joined together.

Like numerals refer to like parts throughout the several views of the drawings.

In the drawings. 5 is a wind instrument similar to the ordinary cornet. 6 is another wind inst ument, known as the cornetocorno. The instrument 5 comprises a series of valves 7. 8 and 9. constituting the first, second and third valves, respectively. of the cornet. These valves are provided with casings 10. 11 and 12, respectively, and are constructed in the usual manner. The third valve 9 is connected to the second valve 8 bv a tube 13 and the valve 8 is connected to the valve 7 by a tube 14 in the usual well known manner. The third valve 9 is supplied with the usual U-shaped tone and one half tube 15, the valve 8 is supplied with the usual half tone tube 16 and the valve 7 is supplied with the usual U-shaped one tone tube 17. The mouth piece 18 has a rim 19 and is connected to the valve 9 bv a tube 20. A bell 21 is connected by a conical tubular extension 22 to a tube 23, which, in its turn, is connected to the valve 7.

The corneto-corno 6 comprises a series of:

valves 24, 25 and 26, being the valves known as the first, second and third valves of the instrument. These valves are provided, respectively, with casings 27, 28 and 29. The valve 26 is connected to the valve 25 by a tube 30, while the valve 25 is connected to the valve 24 by a tube 31 in the usual well known manner. The valve 26 is provided with a tone and one-half tube 32. The valve 25 is provided with a half tone tube 33 and the valve 24 is provided with a one tone tube 34. The instrument 6 is provided with a mouth piece 35 which has a rim 36 thereon and is connected by a tube 37 to the third valve 26. Said tube has a plurality of U- shaped bends 38, 39 and 40 formed therein and connects at 41 with the valve 26. A bell 42 is connected to the valve 24 bv a tube 43 and a conical tubular extension 44, said conical tubular extension being bent at an angle at 45, so that the sound waves are directed from the bell 42 in a direction substantially at right angles to the direction in which the sound waves are directed from the bell 21 and said sound waves are directed from the bell 42 substantiallv at right angles to the mouth piece tube 37.

It will be noted that while the rims 19 and 36 are substantially duplicates as to size and form, the interior bore 46 of the mouth piece 18 is much shorter than the bore 47 of the mouth piece 35, that is, the cup of the mouth piece of the corneto-corno is much deeper than that in the trumpet mouth piece before it arrives at its smallest diameter where it joins the tube leading to the third valve. The effect of this difference in construction of the mouth piece is that it assists in the production of a tone similar to that of a French horn.

The rims 19 and 36 being substantially duplicates of each other enables the same musician to play either one of the two instruments, and the position of one adjacent to the other enables him to change from one to the other readily. It is well known to those skilled in the art of playing wind instruments that the same musician could not take up the ordinary French horn and play that and the bassoon or trombone, but with the instrument hereinbefore described he can play either of the instruments, the cornet or the corneto-corno, and obtain the effect of playing a cornet and a French horn without any difficulty by simply changing from one mouth piece to another, and if he desires to obtain the effect of a bassoon or trombone, he can do so by removing the mouth piece used to produce the tone of the French horn with the corneto-corno and inserting a different shaped mouth piece-that is a mouth piece with a different shaped interior bore but having the same shaped rim.

In order to enable either of the instru- "ments to be used as a single instrument, I

have detachably connected the two together by means of a bracket 48 (see Figs. 3 and 4) which is interposed between the casings 10, 11 and 12 and the series of casings 27, 28 and 29. Said bracket has fastened to opposite sides thereof segmental plates 49 and 50 which bear against the casings 11 and 28, respectively. A pair of levers 51 and 52 are pivotally mounted at 53 and 54, respectively, upon the bracket 48. These levers are provided at their outer ends with segmental plates 55 and 56, respectively, which bear against the casings 12 and 10 respectively, and are held thereagainst by torsional springs 57 and 58. The levers 51 and 52 are provided with finger-pieces 59 and 60 by means of which they may be manipulated to overcome the torsion of the springs 57 and 58 and disconnect the levers 51 and 52 from the casings 12 and 10. The bracket 48 also has pivoted thereto another pair of levers 61 and 62 which are pivoted at 63 and 64 to said bracket and are provided at their outer ends with segmental plates 65 and 66, respectively, which bear against the casings 29 and 27, respectively. Said segmental plates are held against said casings by torsional springs 67 and 68, respectively. They are provided with finger pieces 69 and 70, whereby the levers 61 and 62 may be operated to overcome the tension of the springs 67 and 68 and free the casings 29 and 27 from the clamp plates 65 and 66. It will thus be seen that the two instruments 5 and 6 may be readily attached to, or disconnected from. each other by means of the levers 51 and 52, 61 and 62 and the bracket 48 upon which said levers are mounted.

The instrument is played in the usual manner and by changing the mouth piece upon which the musician plays the variety of tone production hereinbefore set forth may be obtained by one musician, thus greatly increasing the effects which can be produced by a small orchestra.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire by Letters Patent is:

1. In combination, two complete wind instruments of diiferent styles, each of said instruments embodying a plurality of valves and casings therefor and means for detachably fastening one of said instruments to the other, a mouth piece for each of said instruments, said mouth pieces being adjacent to each other, said means comprising a bracket and a plurality of spring-actuated levers mounted on said bracket and adapted to engage said valve casings.

2. In combination, two complete wind instruments of different styles, each of said instruments embodying a plurality of valves and casings therefor and means for detachably fastening one of said instruments to the other, a mouth piece for each of said instruments, said mouth pieces being adjacent to each other, said means comprising a In testimony whereof I have hereunto set bracket interposed between the valve casings my hand in presence of tWo subscribing Witof said instruments, respectively, and a plunesses.

rality of spring-actuated levers mounted on LOUIS F. KLOEPFEL. 5 said bracket and terminating at one end Witnesses:

thereof in segmental curved plates adapted CHARLES S. GooDING,

to engage said valve casings. DANIEL A. RoLLINs.

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